Making a tiny dent in the pile of shame

In the middle of 2021 I bought the starter set for the "second season" reboot of Blood Bowl. When I unboxed it I talked about all the lovely sprues of figures ready to be built.

And they remained on the sprue until last night, when I finally got round to building one figure - the star player for the Black Orc team.

Clipping fun!

So, a couple of things... This player's name is Varag Ghoulchewer. Except I modified the figure slightly. As supplied, Varag has half a corpse impaled on his shoulder spike. I didn't like the look of this so just left this piece off. 

Bits of this model were fiddly to build, particularly getting his head piece complete with the tusked chin-guard right. (I'm not totally sure I've got it glued together entirely correctly.) I ended up using a video off YouTube to help me get that part of the model assembled. 

As I've modded the figure I've renamed him Garav Foolchewer. He will still have the star player's characteristics, skill levels and abilities. 

The second thing is that this dent in the pile of shame feels more significant than it really is. Yes, I have finally built a model from the second season starter box. But there are still two full teams in the box that are untouched on their sprues. Plus I have bought two other teams that are still on the sprue since I last listed all the unbuilt stuff I had. 

My current roster looks like this:

Human team - built and half painted, along with an ogre who needs to be repainted because he's currently in the wrong colour scheme

Orc team - built and mostly painted 

Lizard-men team - built and almost completely painted (including the bonus kroxigor figure)

Skaven (giant rat) team - built and painted, except for two star players who are (recently) built and unpainted

Necromantic Horror team - built and half painted

Wood elf team - built, unpainted. Although I have a treeman figure to go with this team who is mostly built and painted.

Human 'Imperial Nobility' team plus star player plus ogre - all on sprue

Black Orc team plus troll - still on sprue. The star player is built though!

Norse team - still on sprue

Elf (Elven Union) team - still on sprue

That's ten teams with four currently untouched in the pile of shame! 

But still, I've made a tiny little dent.